Completed Frame
This is a very gratify stage, to get your plane all assembled, even tho'
it is buck naked. I spent quite a bit of time aligning the wings before
drilling the main spar Clevis pin holes. To aid in the alignment, Mike
Ransom came up with the following helpful method of sketching the high or
low parts with + or - as you tweak and shim toward that perfect alignment.
In Planform, top view:
____________________ _____________________
( + - - | | + + ok ) ^
| | | | | front
| + - ok| | + ok - |
|____________________| |_____________________|
This sketch, coming from measurements with a bubble level,
would indicate that the port wing is too high on the outside
and the starboard wing is too high on the inside front.
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